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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

FRIDAY, MARCH 1935.

HOW BRITAIN BUILDS HOME FOR WORKERS YOU MUST SEE THE 1935 ----

MILLIONS SPENT ON

HOUSING PROBLEM

WHITE FELT HATS

THEY ARE EXCEEDINGLY

SMART. PRICE BASED ON

THE HIGH EXCHANGE.

IMPROVING CONDITIONS OF LIVING

By MILTON BRONNER

London.

When the United States turns hopefully in 1935 to- ward a vast housing programme to create work and raise the standards of living for millions, it is venturing into no unmapped or unknown land.

The proposed American programme is very much like what Britain has been doing ever since the World War.

Since 1919, Britain has been able to build 2,193,106 new houses-1,164,831 of them built with state aid, and 1,028,275 with private capital. This progress has kept building trade workers busy, stimulated industry in gen- eral, and contributed much to the "recovery" by conserva- tive Britain that is the envy of many American conserva- tives.

When the World War ended, more than 1% persons per room Britain found itself with a defi-¡live in a house there in overcrowd- nite and vast housing shortage.|ing, the Architects' Journal osti- Especially in the industrial cities, mated that in 16 large cities, 670,- there was dire need for decent 000 now houses were needed. houses for workingmen,

In London, it was found that But becauso building material two of three familles were com- cost so much, interest rates on pelled to share a house, that one- borrowed money were so higli, and eighth of the population live more the pay of building trade work-than two to à room, and that in man was so stoep, it was hard to Scotland this proportion was more build homes at a cost low enough than a third.

that workingmen could either buy them or rent them.

Sir E. D. Simon, former mayor

of the industrial city of Manches-

The British government took after, said nearly 2,000,000 new hand. Its effort Was in

phases:

two houses would be needed in Britain by 1951, and that four million Almost from the Arml-homes were below any acceptable, standard.

First: stice down to last year, the Gov ernment itself alded the private building of houses by granting

subsidies.

Pictured above is one of the new housing developments on the outskirts of London, which have created whole new districts with well planned streets and modern homes, as part of the hugs home-

building programme Britain bas p.eesed ever since the World War.

GOOD NEWS FOR GOURMET

“FRUITS DE MER”

FOR LONDONER

London, Jan. 31. So in 1930 a new housing act)

London, hna many good fish went through Parliament. It de restaurants and oyster shops, In- fined slums, and gave local au-

thorities a chance to do away with cluding at least one that never Second: Ald to private building the plague spots. They can either opens in the profane months that has now ceased, and the Govern- roquire owners to demolish such have no "p" in them. But there mont has turned to tearing down buildings, or buy the areas them is always room at the top, and the alums and providing new and bet-selves and arrange demolition, ter houses in which the former

slam-dwellers can afford to live. OWNERS FORCED TO ACT

Beginning with the Addison Act

opening of an English branch this

week of the famous Prunier's from It

If owners tear down the build-Paris is an event in its way.

A

those 16 years, paid out some torn down, others ordered re- oysters, French oysters, Portu-

a cockle, a mussel,

in 1913, the Government extended ings, they keep the sites. If theis established in St. James Street, a series of subsidies to private authorities have to demolish them, in the house where Rumpolmeyer's, builders of homes under plans they buy the areas on terms agree the New York pastrycooks used to approved by the Ministry of able to the Ministry of Health. sell their dainties. Prunier's is Health, working through 1,712; local authorities.

The law provides for designat- specialising on dish, of fruits ing certain "Improvement areas."de mer," consisting of English The British treasury has, in In these the worst houses may be

£200,000,000 in housing subsidies, įpaired. If the owner

is slow guess oysters, and has drawn to building a total about doing the repairing, the city and a small French shellfish, all of nearly £1,000,000,000 from may do it and charge the cost to neatly disposed round 11 Bea treasury and private sources. him. Appeals from such demoll-urchin. Many of the lesser known This outpouring of money has tion and repair orders go to coun- fish and crustaceans are given been of the greatest help in keep-ty-courts,------ ing British Industry going.

prominence in the menus as well Local authorities, before pro-ins several of the common varieties. ceeding with such programme of that are usually neglected in slum clearance, must entisfy the fashionable places, Low interest rates at whichMinistry of Health that they have money could be borrowed helped provided houses, into which the bring this result, and many cb displaced people may move. That smoked salmon is one of the novel. Mervors believe that such condi-is important, for experience has tion is now becoming apparent in shown that often the apartments the United States,

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Rumanian caviare, the colour of

tles.

ballt on land whore slums have Mme. Prunier, who is the grand In 1933, money becanic been destroyed are so expensive

HO casily available in Britain for that the displaced people can't daughter of the founder, received housing loans that the government afford them and simply move into the West London gourmets and a discontinued its subsidies. Build-for create new slums.

number of Parisians on the open- ing and loan associations were en-

MOVING EXPENSES PAID ing night at an assembly which, couraged to loan a higher per-

recalled the cartoons of "Sem." centage of a house's cost, the gov-: Where alums are cleared, own The only ash delicacies not on the ernment assuming responsibility fors are paid only for the value of for the difference between

Chesapeake HofL- the the land. To provide for the ex- normal 70 per cent and the 30 per penses of these moves, and for shelled crabs and shad roe and vent which it recommended. allowances for moving costs for English jellied cels-but I can-

tables

were

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and

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POROUS and COOL. INCLUDING THE POPULAR

TWO-WAY STRETCH

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and BLOSSOMS

FROM LONDON AND PARIS

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The quickest way to get the best whisky:

Taking over the duties of Sir William Clark an High Commis. sioner from the United Kingdom to Canada, Sir Francia Floud will impervize trade relations between Canada and the homeland. Sir Francle and Lady Fload Casated) are shown, above, in their new home, with their son and daughter.

BLAIRGOWRIE LOST

ENTIRE CREW OF TWENTY SIX DROWNED

London, Feb. 28.

been lost in the Atlantic with the entire crew numbering 26. After a prolonged search the German liner Europa and other vessola, which had answered the distress signals, were obliged to abandon

It is feared certain that the hope yesterday and they resumed.

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HAIG

BUILDING

AT THE NINETEENTH the stroke of genius most appreciated by all is the soothing hospitality of HAIG. To avoid disappointment at the Club House AND - "why be vague".

elsewhere say 'HAIG' tenants obliged to go elsewhere, not be sure about the last named British steamer Blairgowrle has their voyages.--British Wirelena.

This decision to abandon sub: the national treasury pays about sidies after many years of them £2, 69. Od. a year for 40 years for London delicacy being absent. was fought tooth and nail by the every person displaced. Local for Madame is setting out to give Socialists, who contended that authorities provide from local London all its own fish cuisine as scarcely a third of the need for taxes £ 6s. Od. a year for 40 years well as that of Paris. workingmen's homes had been for every house destroyed."

filled.

But the principal source of cap-

the rentals,

But the government replied that ital for razing slums and building or from such men as the Prince it was sure private enterprise and new housing projects is from of Wales and the Archbishop of capital could assume the burden, loans at a rate of interest fixed by Canterbury, Sir Hilton has gone and took up the problem of alum the government at 3% por cont. right ahead. The Prince has been elimination.

The bill fixes rentals in the now interested in the housing problem LONDON SPENDS MILLIONS apartments and houses built, aud for years, and on hla'own propor- Already the city of London had sets up an elaborate system of ties in the workingmen's section become one of the greatest Innd-cost and expenses for calculating of London he voluntarily tore lords of the metropolitan area, having built 69,000 housos and MINISTER "ON SPOT" flats for 350,000 people to live in.; Adding to foderal funds

On now 'flate and apartments £40,000,000 of its own tax money, now under way rentals have not the London County Council had yet been set, but on properties bullt not only new apartmanta in now operated by the London, The government plans to spend crowded areas, but had developed County Council they are: For aa half-billion dollars in a five-year whole streets and communities In Ove-room house, exclusive of taxes plan of slum demolition. Sir Hil outlying districts.

and water rent, from about 12/- ton points to demolition of 18,197

somo

down many bad buildings and re- placed them with model finta at low rentals. .

HUGE SUM TO BE SPENT

a week; four-room houses about buildings in 1933, completion of Last year the elty of London had 118.; four-room flats, about 98.; 15,058 now ones, and beginning £3,000,000 coming to it in rents. two-room flata, about 78,

of 19,301 more.

The slum problem then became paramount. The National Hous- Sir Hilton Young, na Minister He is pressing In Parliament ing and Town Planning Council of Health, is in the dificult posi- for a complete survey of over- in 1929 showed that one-quarter of tion of having to please everybody crowded conditions, after which the population of England and with this programme. He hasn't local authorities would be charged Wales was living under definitely done it. He is attacked by So-with elimination of such condi- overcrowded conditions. A Scot-cialista and Liberals for not mov-tions in their own communities. tish committee reported that atling fast enough. He is attacked least 41,000 houses in Scotland by landlords for moving too fast. wore absolutely unfit to live in and should be destroyed.

GREAT CONGESTION FOUND Taking as a basis that whani

So when the United States.em- barks on 'a vast housing pro- They are demanding that owa-gramme, the experience of Britain ors of condemned buildings be stands before it as a great labora- pald not only for the land, but tory whose resulta are available also something for the buildings. for no more effort than it takes to

But, heartened by activo sup study them.

Major-General Kanj! Dalhara, director of the Special' Duties Organ of the Japanese Kuratung Army at Mukden, to whom certain Formiga, papers have given the nickname of “Lawrence of Manchu- kuo, as he arrived in Shanghaś recently. He is arriving in Hong- .

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